Situation 1:

With the implementation of the rule that we now have half time at 8 points it opens up the possibilities that there may not be a half time or half time will occur so late in the game that there is not much of a second half, or the cap time will occur during half time. So lets look at the possible scenarios.

If the hard cap of 1 hour and 40 minutes is reached prior to half time and then the 8th point is scored then the result would stand and there would be no 2nd half.

If the 8th point is scored with less than 10 minutes left in the game(10 minutes being key since that is the length of half time according to UPA rules), then you must play a point after half time. Although I could not find a rule governing this exact situation (and i looked at most forums to see if it has ever come up) the basic scoring rule is that once a point is scored the next point must be played.  Within the definitions section of the rules it says "

Q. Scoring attempt: A scoring attempt starts at the beginning of the game or when the previous goal is scored and ends when the next goal is scored.

So using this as our governing rule, once the 8th point has been scored to go to half time the next point would have to be played even though a half time would occur in between.

In other words the game can not end during a half time. 

Situation 2

In the event that a team does not have enough players to field a team at the start time we have implemented a 1 point every 5 minute penalty but we did not really discuss how long this goes on for. So for this year the rule will be that if a team does not have enough players within 20 minutes of the game time that they have to default. 

We will discuss these rules at the captains meeting to see if this is how we want to do things for next year, but feel free to also discuss them on the forum.